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Worksheets04. Integration Management
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
You have been assigned to lead an initiative for which the business case has not been sufficiently made to get approval to initiate a hybrid project. In some of the past projects, teams realized too late into project execution that no one in the company had the skills needed to build some of the features, so it was developed by a contractor, resulting in cost overruns.
What would you do differently in your assignment to avoid cost overruns?
Start with a proof of concept
Use burn down charts for reporting
Develop a project charter
Encourage team knowledge sharing
Your Team have not worked on the projects before, and don't know about waterfall, agile or any of the difference models. Your project may also have the requirements that are certain or uncertain, with varying level of risk, so are not sure which approach to use as you begin this new project.
What will you do next?
Use Waterfall and plan everything up front, so the team have more stability
Use general phase definitions such as Feasibility, Design, Build, Test, Deploy and Close
Use Agile to ensure you can respond to change while your team's capability is increases
Don't use any project approach, it doesn't matter as long as the work is getting done.
Planning is underway for a project to develop a new online collaboration tool. The team will use eXtreme Programming (XP) method to develop the tool, while the deployment to the customers will be managed using a waterfall approach.
The agile coach would like to gather early customer feedback to ensure the new tool is aligned with the product vision.
What is the best course of action?
Develop the complete set of features and showcase it at a developer's conference
Create a wireframe for the public to use and provide feedback
Plan for the development of an MVP for a release to a subset of customers
Perform decomposition to create the work breakdown structure
Which of the following is not true about Project Charter?
Project charter is written by
the Project Manager.
Project charter defines the
purpose of the project
Identify and authorizes the
Project Manager
Project charter is authorized
by Executive Management
A project manager has just presented the project management plan at a meeting to the project sponsor and
other stakeholders who have signed off on the plan. What should the project manager do next ?
Develop the project
schedule
Have the project sponsor
approve the project charter
Acquire the necessary
resources for the project
Request approval from the
project sponsor to proceed
with oroject execution
Which of the following is not included in a Project Charter?
Resource management plan
Risks and constraints
Summary milestone case
Key Stakeholder list
The key output of Direct and Manage Project Work Process is which one of the following:
Creating the WBS
Deliverables
Verified Deliverables
Performance reports
The company has been working on a needs assessment and economic feasibility study for several months regarding the need to improve their web user interface. A business case has finally been approved. The project manager and the sponsor worked together to develop the project charter, and the sponsor has approved the charter. What should the project manager do next?
Develop the stakeholder register
Estimate budget
Develop Project Management Plan
Define Scope
You are finalizing the Project Report for your project. Which project management process are you currently performing?
Monitor & control Project Work
Control Schedule
Close Project or phase
Control Project
While executing a project to develop a new computer game, the project manager determines that support for the project is waning among some of the key stakeholders. In order to recapture the stakeholders' initial enthusiasm, the project manager arranges an event for the stakeholders to experience the components of the game that have already been developed. Based on the feedback received, the event was an effective way to keep stakeholders engaged. What should the project manager do next?
Record the information in the lessons learned register
Revise the communications management plan
Record the information in the lessons learned repository
Update Project status
What is the key benefit of developing a charter for a project?
Providing the project manager with the formal authority to manage the project
Creating a comprehensive document that defines the basis of all project work
Creating a contract between the project manager and the performing organization
Linking the project to the strategic objectives of the performing organization
A new Project has been Kick Off. in your Organization due to a recent Government inquiry into your industry, which found multiple process with significant regulatory oversight that need to change.
The inquiry ordering these changes has given you a due date 10 months' time before you start incurring penalties.
What will you do next?
Proceed, with Agile development approach to deliver a change as quickly as possible
Proceed, with Hybrid development approach to respond to change while planning up front
Proceed, with Predictive methodology to ensure quality control
Proceed, with Iterative methodology approach to improve using feedback
